Manglehorn (2015)

Manglehorn Synopsis

Reclusive small town locksmith A.J. Manglehorn (Al Pacino) has never recovered from losing the love of his life, Clara. Fixated on her memory, he feels closer to his beloved cat than the people around him. Still, he forges on with his tenuous human connections, maintaining intermittent contact with his son (Chris Messina) and taking misplaced pride in a former protégé gone astray, and establishing a cautious friendship with a kind woman from the local bank. As this solitary man approaches the possibility of new love, he finds himself at a crossroads between staying mired in the past and embracing the present. Instilled with director David Gordon Green's unique brand of eccentricity and anchored by a remarkably rich, understated performance from Pacino, Manglehorn is a movingly humanistic portrait of a man rendered with unsentimental simplicity and idiosyncratic humor.

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There is no denying the legacy of Al Pacino. And while the latter half of Pacino’s career hasn’t been as strong as the former, Manglehorn, which just made its domestic debut at SXSW 2015, shows that the star still has the immense talent and gravitas it takes to carry a drama-heavy character study.

Eric Eisenberg
Mar 15, 2015

Al Pacino Is Fantastic In The Somber Manglehorn

We are now only a little over a month away from the start of the annual SXSW Film Festival in Austin, and judging from the list of features that will be both premiering and screening, this year’s event should wind up being a great one. But amongst all of the titles, which ones are the big standouts?